Here is a an interesting article from The Record by Andrea Peterson looking at the impact of “Off-the-shelf spyware” such as Pegasus from the Israeli NSO Group in democratic countries – particularly focusing on its use in Mexico and a recent Citizen Lab report. Democracies are having a reckoning with …
Because It’s Friday – back to space this week
The reason for the “Because It’s Friday” project was to lighten the content of this blog as my stories can be a stream of bad news. With the cyber security news this week of loss of privacy, the insider threat, our cars being vulnerable, threat actors hitting out at home …
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There was the story of taking burner phones to China for the Olympics – now we have the Qatar World Cup spyware
I found this on Bruce Schneier’s blog: I covered the story of the Beijing 2022 Olympics and the privacy issues raised for those attending, and the advice that burner phones would be a good idea because of China’s internet and privacy policies: Privacy in China and the Winter Olympics – …
Microsoft encryption not up to the job
Research is showing that Microsoft’s Office 365 Message Encryption is good for privacy – as it makes accessing the message difficult, rather than security, putting the message out of reach of anyone but the recipient. Microsoft disputes report on Office 365 Message encryption issue after awarding bug bounty – The …
